Dovecote And Cider House, Grange Farm

DEERHURST DEERHURST WALTON SO 82 NE 3/54 Dovecote and cider house, Grange 24.11.86 Farm (formerly listed as dovecote to south of Grange Farm) II Dovecote and cider house. C17, altered C19; late C19 cider house. Random rubble, dressed quoins to dovecote, Sussex bond brickwork cider house, tiled roofs. Tall dovecote, lower cider house against gable. Entrance side to dovecote: wide central doorway with timber lintel, quoins on left largely straight-jointed to wall, top renewed in brick; lower quoins on right replaced by brickwork to cider house; eaves fascia to latter, open eaves to dovecote, hipped roof with gablets. Left return, lean-to brick buttress at foot left end, some brick quoining above. Boarded window opening centre, wall disturbed above: weatherboard facing to gablet. Interior: originally 19 full rows of nests all round, of stone, ledge below approximately every third row, some nests removed for later openings. Floor level raised: blocked door opposite main entrance; door cut to cider house. Three trusses, end for gablets: left end king-post with bolt, centre angle struts from tie-beam, right tie-beam and collar: one pair purlins, plank ridge. To cider house, wall thickened either side main doors, offset beam for spindle to mill, one pair purlins strutted apart.

Listing NGR: SO8900628062